My Oh No The Big 4-0 Giveaway!!!

Ok, let's just say I know how to milk a birthday!  I have been talking about my special day all week!  I am only in my first week of my 40's but I feel great about my new decade.  Something liberating about being a woman of my age now.  I love it!!!  I feel like I have a fresh new start, a new life of some sorts!!! 
I sure thank you all for the sweet wishes, I sure feel loved! 
I have been blogging for almost 5 years now, I remember my first conversation about blogging was over lunch with my new friends who I was adopting with.  At the time it was kind of a new thing, so many family members and friends followed our every step as we followed our hearts to China and back.  I started this blog a few years afterwards because so many of my posts on my family blog were pertaining to things that I was doing around our house, finally I gave myself a place to journal about my decorating passion and my ever evolving home improvements.  A place to journal about all of the "feathers in my nest". 
I love reading blogs about cooking, cleaining, organizing, family life and of course decorating.  I have gained so many wonderful tidbits of knowledge through reading blogs.  As a stay at home mom I feel like I have a group of girlfriends who are always checking in on me and who can appreciate all of the things that I love.  Kindred spirits if you will. 

My adoption bloggy friends will always have a very special place in my heart, they are family to me.  But my decorating blog friends  are like best buds, you ooooh and aaaahhhh over things just like I do, you are squealing in delight just like I would when you see something that is just "blog worthy" and you just understand why I change my furniture like a 100 times a year, it is just me, and you love me just the way I am !!!  So to thank you for your friendships I am giving away a beauty!!! I know many of you follow my sister's blog and love her artwork, well, as a good big sister would do, I forced her into giving me something from her collection to offer to my friends in honor of my big 40th!!!  She gave in much easier than she did when we were little!!!  Just look at what I have behind curtain number 1 ladies!!!! 

This sweet little canvas original painting by her!!!  We both love the water so much, it is a part of our DNA I am sure!  I loved this little piece when I saw it in her studio a few weeks ago and it can now be YOURS!!! Please leave me a comment between now and Tuesday   and you can be entered to win this one of a kind by my little sister Melanie at Pretties and Posies.  Just my way of saying thank you for being my friends, for loving me just the way I am. Even if I am 40!!!   Good luck ladies!!!!